<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://www.maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64867]]></link><description><![CDATA[Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/64867</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum toreceive it. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22054]]></link><description><![CDATA[If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum toreceive it.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/22054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hence ye profane; I hate ye all; Both the great vulgar, and the small.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/48931</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11955]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are always striving for things forbidden, and coveting those denied us. [Lat., Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/11955</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39026]]></link><description><![CDATA[I like cliffhangers, with the hero in trouble at the end. I used to go on real bendersÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€ÂI don't do that anymore. But when you go on bender you never know what's going to happen.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39026</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62979]]></link><description><![CDATA[Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/62979</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1194]]></link><description><![CDATA[No padlocks, bolts, or bars can secure a maiden better than her own reserve.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/1194</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5842]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5842</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6366]]></link><description><![CDATA[The evidence for our New Testament writings is ever so much greater than the evidence for many writings of classical authors, the authenticity of which no-one dreams of questioning. And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt. It is a curious fact that historians have often been much readier to trust the New Testament than have many theologians.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6366</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/2966</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18653]]></link><description><![CDATA[Happiness is not best achieved by those who seek it directly.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/18653</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17187]]></link><description><![CDATA[Weather means more when you have a garden. There's nothing like listening to a shower and thinking how it is soaking in around your green beans.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/17187</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326]]></link><description><![CDATA[If cats could talk, they wouldn't.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5326</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The longer you leave it in checking, the more likely it will vanish. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41567]]></link><description><![CDATA[The longer you leave it in checking, the more likely it will vanish.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/41567</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51794]]></link><description><![CDATA[From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51794</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33198]]></link><description><![CDATA[Yeah, I definitely wanted to do a kids' movie because I have a kid. I want to do things that my daughter can see soon - when she is old enough to know what a movie is.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33198</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26344]]></link><description><![CDATA[There can be no defense like elaborate courtesy.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/26344</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was a good game for, not bad at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33455]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was a good game for, not bad at all.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/33455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840]]></link><description><![CDATA[Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4840</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861]]></link><description><![CDATA[There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/53861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  These things I did not see by the help of man, nor ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6486]]></link><description><![CDATA[Commemoration of Osmund, Bishop of Salisbury, 1099  These things I did not see by the help of man, nor by the letter, though they are written in the letter; but I saw them in the light of the Lord Jesus Christ, and by his immediate Spirit and power, as did the Holy men of God, by whom the Holy Scriptures were written. Yet I had no slight esteem of the Holy Scriptures; they were very precious to me, for I was in that spirit by which they were given forth; and what the Lord opened in me, I afterwards found was agreeable to them.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/6486</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58072]]></link><description><![CDATA[He is not only dull himself, but the cause of dulness in others.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39413]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have stuck their hands into a hornet's nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Â definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39413</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5542]]></link><description><![CDATA[None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5542</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5084]]></link><description><![CDATA[The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/5084</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tough luck. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tough luck.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51174]]></link><description><![CDATA[No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/51174</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43899]]></link><description><![CDATA[Use what talent you possess-the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/43899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're setting up investment banking now ... people will be on the ground this year. It's one of the big ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31368]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're setting up investment banking now ... people will be on the ground this year. It's one of the big opportunities our senior management sees globally.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/31368</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian, made lanterns, Harcatius, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus Nero went up and down Greece and challenged the fiddlers at their trade. Aeropus, a Macedonian, made lanterns, Harcatius, the king of Parthia, was a mole-catcher; and Biantes, the Lydian, filed needles.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/44869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The best you can beat any given momentis yourself. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34408]]></link><description><![CDATA[The best you can beat any given momentis yourself.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34408</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3738]]></link><description><![CDATA[Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/3738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25684]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone- but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/25684</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are excited, but there are more games left. You can't focus on this one. You have to put it ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38176]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are excited, but there are more games left. You can't focus on this one. You have to put it behind you and you have to go on to the next one.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/38176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20674]]></link><description><![CDATA[Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/20674</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4512]]></link><description><![CDATA[In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/4512</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52186]]></link><description><![CDATA[Insanity -- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/52186</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45612]]></link><description><![CDATA[May I govern my passions with absolute sway, And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/45612</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55784]]></link><description><![CDATA[Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. -King John. Act ii. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/55784</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63219]]></link><description><![CDATA[You will never have anything you don't respect, including lot's of money.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35541]]></link><description><![CDATA[Even though it looked like an easy game, he went deep into the count on a lot of hitters. But he threw a strike when he had to.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/35541</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's been tremendous. Take away the scoring ability and what (Ingles) does on the floor. He brings experience. ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ He's ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39671]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's been tremendous. Take away the scoring ability and what (Ingles) does on the floor. He brings experience. ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã‚Â¦ He's helped show a young and inexperienced team the way.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/39671</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63668]]></link><description><![CDATA[Whoever has witnessed another's ideal becomes his inexorable judge and as it were his evil conscience.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/63668</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103]]></link><description><![CDATA[All styles are good except the tiresome kind. [Fr., Tous les genres sont bons, hors le genre ennuyeux.]]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/58103</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21253]]></link><description><![CDATA[The presence of a long-term, conscious goal has helped me maintain stability through the ubiquitous changes of over half a century.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/21253</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[You have to feel good about that offense. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34465]]></link><description><![CDATA[You have to feel good about that offense.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/34465</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10271]]></link><description><![CDATA[The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, the best of circumstances.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/10271</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863]]></link><description><![CDATA[The light upon her face Shines from the windows of another world.  Saints only have such faces.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14863</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14546]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time is the rider that breaks youth.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/14546</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644]]></link><description><![CDATA[There are a lot of future applications. Videoconferencing through your television is one of the things they're talking about, or being able to chat with friends as the television program is going on.]]></description><guid>http://www.maxioms.com/maxiom/42644</guid></item></channel></rss>